How I Self-Sabotaged my Investments in my Journey to Financial Independence.
2024 and the past year is ending with the stock market at all time highs yet again, and guess who HASN'T finished with the same gain in their…
The 3 Most Inescapable Lessons of Adulthood
The ideal life for the standard person is usually shaped by one's decisions. These choices may include friends, career, partner, and a plethora of miniscule things as well. If you…
Messy Management Survival Guide: 3 Ways to Cope With a Bad Manager
Have you ever been dealt a manager that really doesn't like you? I recently have, and I couldn't help but to internalize every encounter that we had. I'd been finding…
Three Major Events That Changed my Life For the Better
The image that I put out to the public is one of self assurance, confidence, and an easy going nature. My hope is to show a mixture of slow and…
7 Ways That you (Unknowingly) Ruin Your Credit!
How old were you when you realized that you should probably start to monitor your credit? For full disclosure, I really did not jump on the bandwagon until I graduated…
The Great Resignation: 5 ways Work From Home-ers are Staying Productive
The great resignation swept America in droves over the past year and it has been like nothing I've ever seen in my lifetime. There has been a surge in articles…
How Growing up Poor Changes you in Adulthood
Most of my childhood was spent sharing things six ways, (including a $40,000 income before taxes at one point). Growing up in rural Champaign Urbana, there weren’t…
4 Damaging Behaviors that can Ruin Your Life!
Four Behaviors to Avoid for Inner Peace Having been diagnosed with anxiety at…
How the Rich get Richer (And How You Can Too).
We hear people giving similar advice everywhere in the personal finance world. “Save your money”, “Create an emergency fund”, “keep some money in the bank.” However, being rich takes actionable…
April Financial Wins and Net-worth Update
April was an AMAZING month full of financial wins! These wins include Debt paydown, Investment portfolio progress, and overall net-worth updates. I am super excited to share the progress of…
